With that age of a system, I'd either leave it alone or replace it with a new Jenkins version. I wouldn't attempt to upgrade it "in place".
If you decide to not leave it alone, refer to the https://jenkins.io/doc/upgrade-guide/ and realize that you're moving across a 2 year gap and a major version number change, with significant new functionality added in that two year period. Jenkins 2 is really great, and has real, very serious advantages over 1.609.3. Some of those advantages include: - Blue Ocean user experience is intensely focused on developers - Pipeline expresses job definitions in a domain specific language tuned to continuous delivery - Multi-branch Pipeline will create and destroy jobs automatically based on discovered branches - Java 8 is required (placing you on a currently supported JDK) - Many security advisories have been resolved - Performance and scale improvements - Reliability improvements - Significant enhancements in many plugins Mark Waite On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 2:44 PM louwho <[email protected]> wrote: > Off and on, I have touched upon Jenkins. My expertise is InstallShield > development, with some Release engineering. Anyway, new project, taking > over the Jenkins build system also. Current Jenkins version is 1.609.3, > the Jenkins LTS is now 2.6.03. Putting aside (for now), the old adage of > 'if it an't broken, don't fix it', are there any real advantages to > upgrading to the latest version, or should I just leave it alone? The > product builds are building PowerBuilder and Java products..and then > InstallShield, copies to AWS S3, etc. We are also considering using some > third party tools that will allow us to move the Powerbuilder stuff from > the CVS repository to GIT. As an aside, does anyone know if you can have > two versions of PowerBuilder on the same build system? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/70caafe3-ec9a-4730-ada5-e598b401973a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/70caafe3-ec9a-4730-ada5-e598b401973a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtFDVK28Tz_FYuGG7J1vqbZx5-14ePOkOJNK3wG64voM5w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
